In the summer of 1969 a festival promising “three days of peace and music” was announced in upstate New York. Four hundred thousand people showed up at what would become a monumental human event. Jim Axelrod talks to a few of those who were there, from musicians John Fogerty and Graham Nash, to a young couple, Nick and Bobbi Ercoline, who returned for the first time in 50 years to the site of the festival, where in 1969 a photograph of them captured a unique moment in music history. Source
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By The Numbers: Woodstock 1969
“Sunday Morning” takes account of one of the most heralded events of the 1960s: the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair, where 400,000 showed up for “three days of peace and music.” Jane Pauley reports. Source
Nature: Flowers of Oglala National Grasslands
“Sunday Morning” displays some true “flower power” at the Oglala National Grasslands in Nebraska. Videographer: Jamie McDonald. Source
Bill Flanagan on Woodstock: Sign of the times
The monumental music festival held 50 years ago, attended by 400,000 people, wasn’t a summation of the counterculture movement in the 1960s, but rather a harbinger of ’70s commercialism Source
Doctors confront a national epidemic of gun violence
More than 40 medical organizations have joined forces to address the 40,000 firearm-related deaths that occur each year – a public health epidemic, they say, that needs preventive medicine Source
Swimming with whales
The Indian Ocean is home to one of the most diverse whale populations in the world – as many as 18 species live there. And no one can get you closer to these hauntingly mysterious creatures than American wildlife photographer Patrick Dykstra. Correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti joined Dykstra as they went swimming with whales in the waters off Sri Lanka. Source
Angela Bassett on “Otherhood”
Actress Angela Bassett, who has played roles that are fierce, sultry and iconic, had an upbringing molded by two strong women. She talks with correspondent Michelle Miller about how her mother and her aunt helped shape her pursuit of an acting career. The busy mother of two also talks about her new Netflix film, “Otherhood,” in which she plays one of a trio of mothers trying to reconnect with their adult sons. Source
Investigators look for motive in El Paso shooting
Investigators are now trying to determine a motive for Saturday’s shooting near an El Paso mall. Chief Justice and Homeland Security Correspondent Jeff Pegues reports. Source
How the Peanuts character Woodstock got his name
The Charles M. Schulz Museum, in Santa Rosa, Calif., is celebrating one of the comic strip’s most popular characters: the little “hippie bird” who became a devoted friend of Snoopy’s Source
The artistry of Angela Bassett
The Oscar-nominee talks about how her mother and aunt helped shape her pursuit of acting, and about her new film, “Otherhood,” playing a mother trying to reconnect with her adult son Source